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Services set for Nathan Leon, killed making truck-stop pizza delivery

Friends and family from across Colorado and beyond will gather at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Flatirons Church in Lafayette to remember Nathan Collin Leon.

The 27-year-old father of three was found shot to death March 17 after he had been dispatched to deliver a Domino's pizza.

His killing may be linked to the murder two days later of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements. Investigators found a Domino's pizza carrier and shirt in the trunk of the wrecked Cadillac that Clements' suspected killer, Evan Ebel, was driving before he died in a shootout with Texas deputies.

Leon's death has devastated not only his wife and young daughters but also his extended family and many friends, said his sister-in-law, Amber Barnhart.

"Taking that life away took from so many people," she said.

Leon was delivering pizza so he could earn extra money for his family. He was reported missing after he was sent to the Sapp Bros Travel Center along Interstate 270 from a Domino's franchise on Colorado Boulevard just south of Interstate 70, according to police.

Leon's car was found abandoned about a mile and a half from the delivery site, and someone later called his family from his cellphone, saying the device had been found in a ditch in Golden.

His body was discovered that night in an open space in Golden at 151 S. Rooney Road, near the junction of West Colfax Avenue, Interstate 70 and C-470. The Denver medical examiner determined that Leon died of multiple gunshot wounds.

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